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Black Ribbon is a sound experiment group from Jogjakarta, Indonesia. The group was formed since early 2004. Black Ribbon explore sounds from unfamiliar objects such as broken radio and tape recorders, D.I.Y effects/sound machine and others. These sounds then construct a new music composition. Recently, Black Ribbon began to make use of drum beats, guitars, and circuit bending instruments in order to enrich their music. ---------------------------------------------Speaking of Black Ribbon is like speaking of first flight experience. There are a lot of feelings that cannot be transferred into verbal languages. Even if it could, it should be regarding how noisy but subtle its sound results. Silence, but noisy. We would not aware how high the plane would take us. But after we adjust several minutes afterwards, the noises become nothing but nuance. They are no longer disturbing, but only reminding that we are on the airplane. So be prepared, there would be a lot of rare views that could be seen through the window.Black Ribbon does the same. They offer magic nuances beyond each of their songs. In fact, according to them, lyrics are not very essential. Sometimes, Black Ribbon's lyrics do not mean anything, but only to provoke the atmosphere. Sometimes they only use one word, or even quote the words from the audience. Quite unique actually. They stress their maximum and distinguished stage performance instead. Therefore, it is natural if some people consider that Black Ribbon is more like an art band than a regular band. Black Ribbon acknowledges that stage performance is as important as their music arrangements. That's what people do. They perform every time on their daily life. That's what people do. It's just most of them do not carefully realize or notice that.Black Ribbon's first gig was on the launching of Anton Subianto's comic, in which at that time they were still performed nothing but noise experimentation, by using radio frequency and tape's ribbon (black ribbon). Therefore, they further called as 'tape DJ' referring to their abnormal treatment towards the tape's ribbon. Further on, they tried to enliven it by adding other instruments such as drums and then guitar into the band in order to achieve more varied sounds.Born from a class in an art institution, definetely influenced the works or band concept of Black Ribbon. According to them, fine artists sometimes exploring other dimensions besides fine arts, as they do with music experimentation. They call it visual recreation. Just like Basquiat and Merzbow, fine artists who were also carried out visual recreation by exploring noise. Black Ribbon admits to obtain inspiration from their senior Seek Six Sick whose personnel not only do music, but also create some works through other medias including fine art. Speaking of Black Ribbon is like speaking of first flight experiences. If the addressee never experience flight at all, then it would be a waste of time. Therefore, they should try that themselves.------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------Rully Shabara Herman,Kompirasi #1 March 2006.2005
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